The Top 17 Free Digital Storytelling Apps for The iPad 1-StoryKit This is an awesome iOS app that allows users to easily create an electronic storybook via illustrations by drawing on the screen, using pictures and text, and recording audio to attach to stories. 2- Talking Tom & Ben News This is fun app to use. Kids can talk to them and they will repeat what you say in turs. 3- I Tell a Story This is a free app that allows users to narrate and record their stories with their own voice and language. 4- Scholastic Storia This is an app that is designed to help kids learn and love to read in a fun and interactive way. 5- Talking Tom Cat This is a cool app that lets you interact with Tom, your pet. 6- Toontastic This app allows kids to draw, animate and share their own cartoons through imaginative play. 7- Our Story This app lets young learners take part in fun games that can help them develop their reading skills. 8- Bunsella Bedtimes Story 9- Idea Sketch Idea Sketch lets users easily draw a diagram and convert it to a text outline, and vice versa.
iPad Apps for School | The Best iOS Apps for Students and Teachers Internet Security | Cloud Security Solutions 6 Helpful Tips For The 1 iPad Classroom by Ben Lovegrove, inkids.com.au While most educators and teachers are aware of the benefits that can arise in the classroom through the use of iPads and tablets, budgetary constraints can often limit the way that technology can be used to augment learning activities in smaller schools (or school districts). In many cases, schools find that the money required to buy iPads for an entire class would be better spent on other equipment or products but this doesn’t mean that the classroom should be an iPad free zone. There are countless benefits to be gained from having one or two iPads in the classroom a single device can still be a useful asset for your classroom for lesson planning and supporting curriculum. There are several ways that teachers can make effective use of a small number of iPads in a classroom here are some ideas to get you started. 6 Helpful Tips For The 1 iPad Classroom 1. 2. 3. 4. Again, only 1 iPad is required. 5. 6.
Digital Storytelling Apps - The GWAEA iPad PD Site One of the best advantages of the ipad is the flexibility that gives your students when completing assignments and communicating ideas. Today we will learn some of the many ways students can communicate their learning by looking at some of the many choices for Digital Storytelling. Allows students to create and record simple puppet shows. Watch your characters take to the stage and deliver their lines just as you wrote them. Toontastic -- (Free with in-app purchases or $9.99) Same basic concept as Puppet Pals but provides some information about different parts of the story (Set-up, Conflict, Challenge, Climax and Resolution) and how they work together to make a story. Allows students to record a story with sock puppets. This one is a little more advanced than some of the others. Similar to Story Patch. Storywheel -- (Free or $2.99 with in-app purchases) A game-type app that has students work together to tell a story. Create Voicethreads on your iPad! Rubrics for Digital Storytelling:
25 Ways To Use iPads In The Classroom by Degree of Difficulty In case you haven’t heard the news, we’re putting out a special mini-issue early next week. It’ll be available in the Edudemic Magazine iPad app and, best of all, FREE to subscribers! If you’re not (yet) a subscriber, it’ll be just $0.99. The following is an excerpt from just one of the articles in the mini-issue. So you’ve got one or a few iPads that you want to use in the classroom. 6 Best iPad Security Apps The best iPad security apps are here to protect all sorts of content stored on your tablet. Whether its pictures, music, files, folders, documents, emails or any other type of data, you can be sure that they’ll be out of harm’s way and away from prying eyes, just as long as the software options sit snuggly in the gadget. Like any other tech device, the Apple slab is also susceptible to various threats like viruses, internet malware and harmful external factors. So if you want to keep your slate secure, do give our array a glance and download an app or two that fits your requirement list just right. 1 – Find My iPhone: Don’t worry. Thereon, you can choose to remotely lock your device, erase the data or opt for displaying a message or playing a sound at full volume, even if your device was on silent mode. Price: Free 2 – 1Password for iPad: From declaring a free app, we now move on to the next contender in our iPad security apps roster which will cost you a little under $10. Price: $9.99
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: A List of Great Checklists Every Teacher should Have Checklists are tools that we the teachers and educators use probably on everyday basis.Obviously, they have several advantages as shown below and I personally love them. Educational Technology and Mobile Learning has been publishing some great checklists over the last couple of years. We have decided to go through all of them and come up with the list below. Some of the checklists are new and have been included here for the first time. Some advantages of Checklists ? As we said before, checklists have several pluses and here are some of them : Checklists provide you with a roadmap of the trajectory your work, plans..etc will takeThey organize what should be accomplished so that nothing is left behindThey give a sense of priority to the things that need to be done firstThey also help you attain your objectives and plan for next ones Here are some important checklists you need to have . 1- Teaching with Technology A Basic Checklist Download it HERE
iMovie and the iPad - The GWAEA iPad PD Site -- Allows for editing and enhancing of photos on your iPad. -- Select any photo from Camera Roll -- Features include: Cropping, Color, Exposure, Sketch, Focus, Borders and Effects -- Share edited photo through email, Facebook, Twitter, tumblr., Flickr, and through -- Photoshop Express -- Allow for enhancing photos with pre-made effects -- Choose Film, Light, or Borders and scroll through options -- Select your choice in one and move on to another (can choose one in each section) -- Share edited photo back to library, iTunes, Facebook, Flickr, Imm.io, Dropbox, or email Video Filming and Planning Resources -- Allows you to create movies or movie trailers using photos and videos from your camera roll and music in iTunes on our iPad or by recording straight into the app -- iMovie allows you to share your videos back to your Camera Roll, YouTube, Facebook, vimeo, iTunes, and CNN iReport Trailers -- Allows the creation of movie trailers around a theme; scary, superhero, romance, etc. arrow. 1. 2. 3.
The iPad and Parental Engagement in Education Parents have a very different perspective. Whilst educators wax lyrical about the potential of the iPad for learning, there are concerns from parents about its impact on their child. Or so we thought. All parents of iPad trial students were asked to complete a questionnaire, attend a focus group meeting and email any further thoughts to inform the decision making progress for future iPad use. Below are direct responses to questions from the focus group where parents were encouraged to discuss with each other the various advantages and disadvantages of the iPad for learning. Have you noticed any change in the way your child approaches learning?. As suspected the increased motivation and collaboration we have witnessed from students has also been observed at home. What are the disadvantages of the iPad in the learning process? Blurring the boundary between work and playAddictive nature of the deviceDoes it detract from the need for good handwriting? Like this: Like Loading...
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50 Apps In 50 Minutes LACUE 30hands Mobile is a fun and innovative storytelling app that allows students, teachers and anyone with creativity to easily create stories or presentations based on photos, images or slides using a smart phone or tablet. Different from other presentation apps, 30hands Mobile focuses on the power of storytelling. Like pages in a book, photos or images are dragged around the desktop into the order of the story. Next, the teacher or student records audio over each image. Finally, the story or presentation can be published to the device’s photo area or uploaded to a 30hands collaborative learning site. Uses: In class stories or presentationsSynchronized slide + audio lectures for flipping the classroomAudio-enhanced image portfoliosForeign language "spoken" flashcardsPhoto-enhanced audio interviewsFun photo memories with audioWhatever you can creatively come up with using images + audio Users include Students, Teachers, Presenters, Photographers, Bloggers, Journalists, Artists, Families
10 Apps for Documenting Learning One of the things that really excites me about the iPad is the ability of the students to show their learning. I am not talking about the end product here, I am talking about the act of learning that can be shown by students recording their processes. It is often about the student putting the information they have learnt into a context. It is this contextualisation that helps the students create meaning. Here is a perfect example from a young 1st grade student who talks us through his investigation into transport. This example was shown on a recent school visit as one way a student could document their own learning. This is where we really see the mechanics of a student's learning and how this can be individual for each student and in the case of a tool like the iPad, individualised for each student. Here are a couple of apps that give students the opportunity to showcase, share and then reflect on their learning. ShowMe: FREETurn your iPad into your personal interactive whiteboard!